The Blowover-Air Tenney
In July of 2012, owner/driver David Tenney was out for testing at Lake DePue, Illinois, in a Kala hydro with a 175cc Rossi motor. He blew it over at 86 MPH. This sequence of remarkable photos, taken by Brad Snow, show him on earlier testing runs, and then when Tenney blew the boat over coming up the front straightaway.
The boat, built in Estonia of carbon and epoxy, was little affected by the crash. Not so for Tenney, who spent a few hours in the local emergency room...St. Margaret's...he limped back into the pits a few hours later, and several months later had knee damage repaired with arthroscopic surgery.
That was enough of 175cc racing for Tenney; the boat went back to Craig (Butch) Dewald, and in October of 2014, to Mike Schmidt.
The boat, built in Estonia of carbon and epoxy, was little affected by the crash. Not so for Tenney, who spent a few hours in the local emergency room...St. Margaret's...he limped back into the pits a few hours later, and several months later had knee damage repaired with arthroscopic surgery.
That was enough of 175cc racing for Tenney; the boat went back to Craig (Butch) Dewald, and in October of 2014, to Mike Schmidt.
